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Defense secretary recommends elimination of A-10 fleet
Tucson News Now ^ | Feb 24, 2014 | Barbara Grijalva

Posted on 02/25/2014 1:56:03 PM PST by bkopto

TUCSON, AZ (Tucson News Now) - The Defense Secretary announced today that he is recommending the elimination of the A-10, the mainstay aircraft at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, as part of a proposed military budget.

Chuck Hagel made the announcement today in at the Pentagon.

The Air Force has said it would save $3.5 billion over five years by cutting the entire fleet of 343 A-10s.

Hagel said he consulted with the military service chiefs on how to balance defense and budget requirements.

(Excerpt) Read more at tucsonnewsnow.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; US: Arizona; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: a10; aerospace; airforce; airsupport; davismonthamafb; tankkiller
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To: GeronL

Not all members of Congress are equal. That should be obvious after Byrd moved the FBI fingerprint operation to WV. It really depends on whose home district is going to be gored.


21 posted on 02/25/2014 2:13:26 PM PST by meatloaf (Impeach Obama. That's my New Year's resolution.)
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To: bkopto
The fighter mafia has ALWAYS hated the A-10. Fixed wing CAS should be moved to the Army. I say that as a former zoomie.

/johnny

22 posted on 02/25/2014 2:13:42 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: bkopto
I feel sorry for the Army. Its leaders must get a sinking feeling in their hearts when they contemplate relying on the Air Farce for fixed wing close air support.
23 posted on 02/25/2014 2:17:13 PM PST by quadrant (1o)
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To: SZonian

Francis Gary Powers was shot down in 1960. I remember because I was 12 at the time. He was flying a U-2 which was made a long time before 1980.


24 posted on 02/25/2014 2:17:30 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: Billthedrill
The zoomies and the bean-counters don’t like the ‘Hog. Nobody asked the troopers.

Yep.

Donate 'em to the Marines.

25 posted on 02/25/2014 2:20:52 PM PST by null and void (<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
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To: yarddog

The current U2s were built in the 80s...U2S models, once called U2R’s and then TR-1s...I know because I worked on them...


26 posted on 02/25/2014 2:21:25 PM PST by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: GeronL
It is too cheap and too reliable

You left out the most important part to this misadministration it saves too many American Soldiers lives!

27 posted on 02/25/2014 2:24:04 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: quadrant

Yeah, I’m sure they do...

http://astroguyz.com/2009/02/19/the-downing-of-spirit-03-did-the-moon-play-a-role/


28 posted on 02/25/2014 2:26:23 PM PST by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: SZonian

Your math is wrong..............


29 posted on 02/25/2014 2:26:55 PM PST by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: Mastador1
it saves too many American Soldiers lives!

And therefore the 0bammunist Regime must destroy it ... because Barry Benghazi and his disgusting minions aren't incompetent, they're evil.

30 posted on 02/25/2014 2:27:47 PM PST by NorthMountain
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To: bkopto

The great state of Michigan is about to lose all of it’s remaining air power.


31 posted on 02/25/2014 2:28:05 PM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: Osage Orange

Pray tell...the ball is in your court...swing away.


32 posted on 02/25/2014 2:28:06 PM PST by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

I wish I had a fully loaded A-10.

Kind of like Cheers, everyone would know my name.


33 posted on 02/25/2014 2:28:42 PM PST by hadaclueonce (Because Brawndo's got electrolytes. Because Ethanol has Big Corn Lobby)
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To: Mastador1

bump


34 posted on 02/25/2014 2:29:25 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: bkopto

They’ve been predicting the death of the A-10 since about 10 minutes after the first one deployed, I’ll believe it when I stop seeing them.


35 posted on 02/25/2014 2:29:27 PM PST by discostu (I don't meme well.)
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To: bkopto

I called the office of Senate minority Whip, John Wayne McCornyn and implored him to vote AGAINST the confirmation of Chuckwad Hagel as SecDef on several occasions.

Obviously, Senate Minority Whip, John Wayne McCornyn knew far better than I in this matter and voted to confirm.

Just another damned good reason why I will not be voting to keep John Wayne McCornyn in the Senate.


36 posted on 02/25/2014 2:30:48 PM PST by Howie66 (John Wayne McCornyn...he's just like US! Honest!)
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To: NorthMountain

The left has always held our military in low regard and relishes their success in damaging it, all you have to do is look at history and see that the demonrats always diminish the military.


37 posted on 02/25/2014 2:31:04 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: SZonian

The U2 was designed and built in the late 1950’s...Francis Gary Powers was shot down over the USSR in 1960 in a U2 spyplane....

You are probably thinking of the SR-71 Blackbird....


38 posted on 02/25/2014 2:31:24 PM PST by JW1949
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To: Osage Orange; yarddog

http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/u2/

Glass cockpit as well...plus a new cockpit pressurization system that reduces the strain on the crew...hmmm...what else did I take part in while on the U2 program?

I’ll never tell...but my “math” is spot on.


39 posted on 02/25/2014 2:31:39 PM PST by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: SZonian
Sure...the FIRST flight of a U2 was in the 50's..

You were 30 years off.

40 posted on 02/25/2014 2:32:09 PM PST by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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